World Water Speed Record Trophy for Auction at Bonhams
Published February 27th, 2010
Bonhams is to offer the silver trophy presented to the racing legend Sir Malcolm Campbell to commemorate his first world water speed record (126.33mph) on Lake Maggiore, 1st September 1937, as part of The Marine Sale at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 24th March.
The trophy, a waterline model of Campbell’s single step hydroplane “Bluebird K3″, was awarded to Campbell by Lord Wakefield, the director of CC Wakefield and Co Ltd, the ‘Castrol’ oil company, who was a keen supporter of motor and aviation development. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £35,000 – 50,000.
Campbell broke nine land speed records between 1924 and 1935, and was the first man to exceed 300mph on land in 1935. He went on to break four water speed records; his highest speed on water was 141.74mph in 1939 in a Bluebird K4 on Coniston Water.
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